Legalize Internet Poker!

Online Poker Camera

Save your best plays!
Online poker is an exciting game, especially when you win a big pot or take down a massive score in a multi table tournament. However, the action happens so quick, and if you aren't tracking each hand your best plays will be lost, forever!

I will never forget my first multi-table tournament win. It was a $5 re-buy on Poker Room with 499 players, and after making it to the final table, I simply ran it over.

I think I took out every single person at the final table myself, but to be honest I can't even remember because it happened so quickly. The Poker Camera pack can help you preserve these important moments of your poker career.

Study your game and the game of your opponents!
It is also important to mention that since online poker involves so many hands in a short period of time, small leaks in your game can become big ones.

There is no finer tool than live video, and if you take the time to record a few round of cash game play, you may notice things in your game and in the game of others that you don't realize when you are playing.

Some people learn better visually, and when combined with hand histories, the videos you shoot could be used to improve your game. You could also use the screen shot tool to supplement the final result of every hand where you go to showdown.

Have fun in countless ways
We all know what it is like to take a bad beat that is so unbelievable you can't escape it. I have found that taking screen shots and then calculating the unlikely odds later helps me to escape tilt and laugh it off.

Of course we have all played with villains that talk crap incessantly. Perhaps you even have an arch-nemesis you want to bust more than anything. Now you can bust them and post the evidence on YouTube to humiliate them!

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SOME GOOD REASONS TO LEGALIZE INTERNET POKER

IT TREATS AMERICANS AS ADULTS

Adults should have the freedom to decide how they want to spend their free time and money without being controlled by the government.

The risk one takes when they gamble is intrinsic to capitalism, and part of the American way of life. We gamble when we invest, start businesses, play the state lottery, in a casino, or at the horse track. Online poker is just as legit as any of these options, and it's huge market will not be denied.

THERE IS ALWAYS A LOOPHOLE

American consumers are technically still not braking the law by playing internet poker. They can basically keep playing, just with added hassle.

As for the loopholes, well lets just say that people are transferring money into their online poker account without using a credit card, a debit card, or even a bank account!

This completely circumvents the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, and speaks volumes to the resourcefulness of players, as well as the poker rooms who will continue to develop new methods for cashing in and out.

IT CAN BE TAXED

If you subscribe to my theory that the games will continue, shouldn't the United States at least allow its corporations to compete in the giant market, thereby generating tax revenue?

I would absolutely love to see online poker generated taxes pumped 100% into a few specific places, namely our schools, or health care system. Imagine if all revenue generated by online poker taxes went directly to our schools in the form of practical real world subjects like teaching them money, interest rates, loans, and investment.

It would much better prepare them to make better decisions with money in the future.

Getting back to the issue, it is estimated by the Poker Players Alliance that online poker would generate as much as $3 billion in tax revenue, and this does not even include any licensing fees that would be added on for the right to run a legal U.S. Online Poker Room.

IT CAN BE CONTROLLED

History has shown that where a huge demand exists but no supply is found, someone always moves in to fill the void. It happens with drugs, happened with alcohol during prohibition, and it will happen with online poker.

If we have learned anything from watching Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and the countless other corporate scandals, it's that legality isn't the biggest factor in people decision making process when millions of dollars is at stake.

As the more established sites have chosen or been forced to temporarily abandon the U.S. market, Online Poker is essentially forced more underground.

The people who run the internet poker rooms in the future may not be as honest and dependable as the sites that have left, or they may even be funded by terrorists or other criminal organizations.

BAN GAMBLING BUT LEGALIZE POKER

I want to first want to point out that games that pit the player against the House should not be offered in any form on the Internet. They are too susceptible to manipulation, and it would be virtually impossible to detect. Plus, whatever money people lose to the House, won't make it to the Poker table!

Poker pits player against player and skill and strategy is what determines your results for the long term.

Compared to games like Roulette, Slots, Craps and Blackjack, which are heavily dependent on chance, Poker rewards solid play.

Most of the people that lose money in real life casinos usually lose it before they ever get to the poker table, playing blackjack or craps. We can ban games of chance on the internet, but legalize poker.

I do admit that gambling addiction and the subsequent issues that go along with it is an issue to be considered, but I feel restricting the majority to save a few addicts that can gamble anyway is a dangerous path to follow.

Besides issues of gambling addiction are much better brought out into the open, and legalization could lead to better treatment for and recognition of problem gamblers, given the new source of revenue.